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Amherst city, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Amherst city is a Census city of 902 people across 0.91 square miles of land, in Lamb County. Median household income is $63,611, 67.6 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Amherst
What Amherst is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.91 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land986 plus or minus 378
- County holding the largest share of its areaLamb County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Amherst
How many people live in Amherst
- Population902 plus or minus 346
- Median age37.3 plus or minus 10.6
- Population under 18231 plus or minus 117
- Share under 1825.6 percent plus or minus 8.5
- Population 65 and over154 plus or minus 48
- Share 65 and over17.1 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Households256 plus or minus 63
- Family households161 plus or minus 50
- Share of households that are families62.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Amherst
Income and work in Amherst
- Median household income$63,611 plus or minus $16,072
- Per capita income$20,471 plus or minus $8,923
- Civilian labor force358 plus or minus 99
- Employed358 plus or minus 99
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over573 plus or minus 182
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher75.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.8 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.7 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Amherst
Housing in Amherst
- Housing units296 plus or minus 60
- Occupied units256 plus or minus 63
- Vacant units40 plus or minus 26
- Vacancy rate13.5 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Owner occupied173 plus or minus 53
- Renter occupied83 plus or minus 42
- Ownership rate67.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$35,500 plus or minus $20,661
- Median gross rent, monthly$779 plus or minus $676
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.7 percent plus or minus 13.3
- Single family units279 plus or minus 63
- Share single family94.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes13 plus or minus 13
- Median year structure built1961
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Amherst
How Amherst gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute352 plus or minus 99
- Commuting under 15 minutes177 plus or minus 60
- Share commuting under 15 minutes50.3 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more64 plus or minus 38
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.2 percent plus or minus 9.6
- Drove alone76.0 percent
- Carpooled15.1 percent plus or minus 8.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked7.3 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Worked from home1.7 percent plus or minus 1.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Amherst
Flood risk in Amherst
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating0
- NFIP community number480894
- Currently effective map date07/11/75
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Lamb County, not Amherst
Lamb County context, not Amherst figures
These are Lamb County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Amherst measurements.
- Establishments in Lamb County230
- Employment at those establishments, Lamb County2,152
- Covered employment, Lamb County3,938
- Average annual pay, Lamb County$52,612
- Average weekly wage, Lamb County$1,012
- Housing units permitted, Lamb County1
- Of those, single family, Lamb County1
- County product, 2024, Lamb County$1,006,062,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lamb County-4.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lamb County$35,691
Every figure in this section is published for Lamb County as a whole and is not a measurement of Amherst. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Amherst questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Amherst, Texas?
902, in 256 households. Amherst city covers 0.91 square miles of land, which is 986 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Amherst in?
Lamb County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Amherst?
$63,611. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $35,500. Median gross rent is $779 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Amherst in the National Flood Insurance Program?
It is listed but not shown as participating. Amherst appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480894, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Amherst figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lamb County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Amherst.
Is zoning published for Amherst?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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